12th March

…Weekend. Decoration Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ just out in the last couple of days. Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’…

22nd February

…Magnolia campbellii (ACUG 5330) planted in 2010 with rather small white flowers. Magnolia campbellii (ACUG 5330) Magnolia ‘Laura Saylor’. Magnolia ‘Laura Saylor’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x ‘J.C. Williams’ a rich…

5th March

…any at all this autumn. Cotoneaster glomeratus Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Williams’ – worth registering and naming? (or has it already been?) Asia might check the list. Magnolia…

27th June

…Cream’ – the name seems to apply more to the buds than the fully open flower unless these two are labelled the wrong way around? Leucanthemum ‘Banana Cream’ Helenium ‘Ruby

10th March

…a young replacement Magnolia sprengeri ‘Copeland Court’. Magnolia sprengeri ‘Copeland Court’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘Werrington’. Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘Werrington’ Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ x M. ‘Vulcan’. Magnolia…

6th March

…Diva ‘Burncoose’ The colour of Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ is superb. Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ First flowers in Tin Garden on the young (and as yet unnamed) Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x Magnolia…

12th April

…‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Nuccios Ruby’ – just one flower. Camellia reticulata ‘Nuccios Ruby’ Camellia reticulata ‘Butterfly Wings’…

20th April

…Pteris umbrosa Pteris umbrosa Dryopteris sieboldii Dryopteris sieboldii Pellaea rotundifolia Pellaea rotundifolia Blechnum brasiliense ‘Volcano’ Blechnum brasiliense ‘Volcano’ Doodia aspera ‘Rough Ruby’ Doodia aspera ‘Rough Ruby’ Polysticichum munitum Polysticichum munitum…

30th April

…Jewel’ ‘Nuccio’s Jewel’ ‘Primavera’ ‘Primavera’ ‘Matterhorn’ ‘Matterhorn’ ‘Ruby Wedding’ ‘Ruby Wedding’ ‘Drama Girl’ ‘Drama Girl’ reticulata ‘White Form’ reticulata ‘White Form’ Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ with its first flowers two years…

1st May

…flowering for the first time. Enkianthus serrulatus Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ just out. Also a newly planted group and with loads of flower. Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ Then a big…

5th May

…but the newly planted rhodos in Rookery Nursery Bed could do with a drink. Betula albosinensis ‘China Ruby’ is starting to develop nice bark on its stem five or six…

13th May

…The stunning red flowers of Astrantia major ‘Ruby Wedding’. Trillium luteum Astrantia major ‘Ruby Wedding’ The novel and unusual Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Greenapples’. [ALONGSIDE] The new to us Centaurea ‘Jordy’. Aquilegia…

6th April

…peeling. Two older specimens in Penvergate are much better and now 20 years old. Very different at present from the Werrington ‘Chinese Garden’ and ‘Bowling Green’ (now called ‘ChinaRuby’) forms…

14th April

…Amos Pickard seedling from Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’. Magnolia ‘Pickards Ruby’ grows nearby and on the drive. Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ 2020 – CHW First cuckoo heard by…

6th May

…are perhaps yet as spectacular as Betula albosinensis ‘Bowling Green’ and ‘Chinese Garden’ (the two Werrington wild collected original ferns) or, indeed, the newly named ‘China Ruby’. I have featured…

23rd May

…to look disdainfully at Rhododendron ‘Ruby Hart’ which droops a bit naturally anyway but has clearly gone beyond the natural stage (little do they know we cut half off already)….

24th May

…much fault despite our drooping ‘Ruby Hart’. He did however state that the judges did not like the black and white steps but were impressed we had removed the hard…

21st December

…(laevifolia x maudiae) – Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x ‘Vairano’ (Marc) – Magnolia ‘Insubria’ (‘Atlas’ x ‘Star Wars’ 2) – Magnolia ‘Apollo’ x ‘Picard’s Ruby’ (WH) (Summer Lady) – Magnolia ‘Summer…

Tregrehan Gardens Visit – 15th March 2019

back to 17th March. The highlights of the visit to Tregrehan on Friday. Seedling from Camellia reticulata ‘Nuccios Ruby’ Edgeworthia chrysantha growing in open woodland Sarcocca wallichii with huge black…

11th March 1897 – 2020

…‘Greenway’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ (possibly ‘Pickards Ruby’) has taken a heavy wind battering. The inside of the tepals will be white when fully open as are the tips now. Magnolia…